Bull-ring.



C. 'B. WAGNER, Jn.

BULL RING.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28| |915.

1 ,209,083 l Patented Dee. 19,1916.

CHARLES B. WAGNER, JR., 0F BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN.

BULL-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1916.

Application led July 28, 1915. Serial No. 42,381.

J r., a citizen of the United States, residing l at Burlington, in thecounty of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain4 new anduseful Improvements in Bull- Rings, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in rings commonly known as bullrings, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructeddevice which may be readily applied without the necessity of employing aseparate implement to perforate the septum of the animal. Y

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructeddevice in which one portion is made slightly larger than the otherportion, so that it is necessary to compress one portion to engage itwith the other and thus insure rigid connection of the parts and preventany tendency to looseness or rattling.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, andthenA specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the inven-v tion, Figure 1is a side elevation of the improved implement with the parts united.Fig. 2 is an edge view of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sideview of the mproved device with the parts separated.

Corresponding and like parts are referred t0 in the followingdescription4 and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingsby the same reference characters.

The improved implement comprises coacting sections 10-11, preferablysemi-circular and pivotally united at one end as shown at 12. Themembers 10-11 are preferably formed of metal, circular transversely,with one of the sections, for instance the section 10, reduced to form atongue, indicated at 13, and the other section bifurcated to receive thetongue, as indicated at 14. The section 10 has a slightly longer initialradius than the section 11, as indicated in Fig. 3. It will be notedthat the distance between the pivot 12 and the free end of the member11, as indicated by the dotted line 15, is slightly less than thedistance between the free end of the member 10 and the pivot 12, asindicated by the dotted line 16, the object to be hereafter explained.

At its free end thev section 10 is reduced and the reduced portionextended for a short distance concentric to the body 10, as indicated at17 and the Vremaining portion drawn to a point, as sho-wn at 18, whilethe free end of the section 11 is provided with a longitudinal socket19, preferably corresponding in outline to the extension 17-18 of themember 10. The extension 17#18 is designed to enter the socket 19 whenthe parts 10-11 are moved toward each other, and by forming the section10 with a slightly greater radius than the section 11, the projection17-18 will enter the socket 19 at one side of its center, andnecessitate the bending of the member 11 slightly when the parts areforced into closed relation, and thus apply strain upon the member 11 tofirmly bind the parts in closed position and effectually prevent anytendency to work loose under the severe strains to which the device willbe subjected, when in use. The eXtension 17-18 is provided with atransverse aperture 20, while the walls of the socket 19 are likewiseprovided with transverse apertures, one of which is represented at 21,the apertures being disposed in registering relation when the parts areforced into closed relation, as -shown in Fig. 1, to receive a holdingscrew or like device 22. The section 1() at its juncture with thereduced portion 17 is rounded slightly so that no abrupt corners orshoulders are produced. When the implement is to be applied, the'sections 10-11 are separated, as shown in Fig. 3,

and the point 18 forced through the septum of the animal and themovement continued until the body of the section 10 has passed for aconsiderable distance through the septum. The parts 10-11 are thenforced into closed relation, the section 11, as before stated, beingbent slightly to enable the reduced portion to enter the socket, and thescrew 22 applied. The sections 10-11 may be of any required metal, butwill preferably be of malleable iron and galvanized or otherwise treatedor coated to prevent corrosion or the sections may be constructed ofnoncorrosive metal or metallic compound.

The socket 19 is provided with an opening 23 and the point 17-18 isprovided with a spring 211 to enter the opening when the parts areunited and thus lock them together. The spring can readily be releasedby a suitable implement inserted into the opening when the device is tobe removed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

l. Anose ring comprising pivotally united sections, the freey end of oneof which is provided with a tapered terminal adapted to entera socketformed in the free end of the mating section, a spring locking membermounted on the tapered terminal and engaging a recess in one wall of thesocket, and an auxiliary locking member piercing the walls of the socketand engaging said tapered terminal.

2.' A nose ring comprising'pivotally united sections, one of saidsections having a longer radius than the other and having its free endprovided with a tapered terminal adapted to enter a correspondinglytapered socket formed in the free end of the mating section, the taperedterminal and the walls of the socket being provided with registeringapertures, a spring locking member mounted on the tapered terminal andadapted to enter a recess in one wall of the socket, and a lock* ingscrew extending through the registering apertures in the socket andtapered terminal, respectively.

3. A nose ring comprising pivotally united sections, one of which has alonger radius than the other and is provided with a tapered terminaladapted to enter a socket formed in the free end of the mating section,the lower wall of the socket being provided with a recess, there beingtransversely alined apertures formed in the side walls of the socketabove said recess and adapted to register with a transverse apertureformed in the tapered terminal when the latter enters the socket, aspring locking member secured to the lower side of the tapered terminaland adapted to enter the recess in the socket, anda screw adapted toengage the registering apertures when the sections are in closedposition.

In testimony whereof I aliX my signature.

oriARLEs B. WAGNER, JR. [L sa Copies of this patentV may be obtained forve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, I). C.

